Virtual Sayama 33 Kannon Pilgrimag #19 Hayashi-do Temple

 

     Cintamanicakra, who usually has 6 arms and holds chintamani (a wish-fulfilling jewel) in one of the six, was enshrined in Hayashi Hamlet, Imokubo Village, Tama County, Musashi Province.  It is unknown when and why the Cintamanicakra statue was brought to the village, which has Toyo-Kashima Shrine as its village shrine.

     When a foreign god came to the province in 707, the shrine was founded to quiet the god.  The Ishikawa Family have been a Shinto priest of the shrine since ancient times.  At the end of the Warring States Period, the family was half-farmer and half-samurai.  Instead of hiring the family as hatamoto samurai, Tokugawa Ieyasu  (1542-1616) brought Sakai Saneaki, who used to be subject to the Takeda Clan, which collapsed in 1582.  Some ex-Takeda samurai were hired by Ieyasu, and were brought to the Kanto Region after 1590.  Far from Jupiter, far from his thunder?

Address: 3 Chome-1664 Imokubo, Higashiyamato, Tokyo 207-0033